Author of books:Must We Mean what We Say? A Book of Essays (1969)The Senses of Walden (1972)The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (1979)The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy (1979)Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (1981)Disowning Knowledge: In Six Plays of Shakespeare (1987)In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism (1988)Themes Out of School: Effects and Causes (1988)This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures After Emerson After Wittgenstein (1989)Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism (1990)Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman (1996)A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises (1996)Emerson's Transcendental Etudes (2003)Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life (2005)Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow (2006)